I've just watched my mum wipe the bin lid then her work surfaces with the same cloth.

[YoScienceBitch]

I mean come on.

Even me, the queen of slack and low standards thinks that's just too gross.

Her argument is that she cleans the bin lid everyday. (She doesn't)

AIBU to want buy her colour coordinated cloths for the kitchen 😂

[BusterGonad]

I don't use my dish cloth in my bin lid, I just lick it clean!

[Wellthatsit]

Our obsession with antibacterial soap and over cleaning is actually causing all sorts of problems.

I thought everyone knew that by now. Germs are good for developing our immune systems and over cleaning has contributed to much more serious problems.

YABU OP

www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/

[FreeButtonBee]

I put nappies in the kitchen bin but it's emptied every day as it's quite a small bin and it lives in a cupboard on its own with nothing else to contaminate. It doesn't even have a lid so no lid wiping issues. CBA to walk out to the front of the house with millions of nappies every day with 3 under 4s thank you all the same.

Wiping the bin lid with a cold damp cloth then wiping your worktops is gross though. Using the same cloth which has been wrung out in super hot water just before yoyu're going to bung it in the wash, fine.

I have about 12 microfiber cloths; I use one for the worktops daily that get chucked in the wash at the end of the day or after doing a particularly dirty job (see above mentioned 3 under 4s - I caught DS2 pooing on the floor yesterday after his bath, the tinker. He is only 16mo though). Simple. No festering cloths; no need for complicated colour coded systems.

My PIL are obsessed with hand washing and yet leave raw and cooked food uncovered in their fridge and use the same manky bit of j-cloth for weeks on end, including wiping the baby's highchair

[cece]

Why disgusting> Surely better than wiping with the dishcloth?

[BusterGonad]

I agree with Wellthatsit antibac products are causing all sorts of shit, I use old fashioned hand soap and generally clean with soapy (washing up liquid) water. Antibac hand soap literally strips my hands and causes bad skin conditions too. And now they sale antibac washing powder for clothes too. It's crazy!

[Serialweightwatcher]

I always spray my bin lid (because the three males in this house tip the plate straight in without opening it first, so stuff splashes all over it!) with dettox and then wipe it over with kitchen roll ... if I used a cloth it would have to go straight into washing machine ... I have to change cloths and tea towels after each use and the washing up scourers need to be changed every 2 or 3 days or sometimes I pop in microwave for 40 seconds .... I got more worried about germs when kids were little

[Basicbrown]

Why disgusting> Surely better than wiping with the dishcloth?

It was a joke

[cece]